He shambled into the room.
disconsolate and exhausted after losing the match, the wrestler shambled toward the locker room
Recent Examples on the WebIts ambling, shambling tour of crashing parties, crashing on available couches, and reluctantly crashing your way into maturity, one misadventure at a time, is not a bug but a feature here.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2024 The cultural preoccupation with zombies shambles on in The Last of Us and other movies and video games.—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024 To this end, the new generation of morticians (another neologism meant to conjure expertise) bought up shambling Victorian mansions in swish residential districts and invented a new form of comfort.—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024 Movies may have led you to believe heroic astronauts can slip on a space suit and leap to the rescue, but under current designs this would result in Brad Pitt clutching his joints and shambling to a very painful (if handsome) death.—Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, Popular Science, 8 Nov. 2023 Ray Fisher incarnates, with natural majesty, the brawn and bravado of Muhammad Ali; Edwin Lee Gibson shambles and stammers as Stepin Fetchit while retaining the dignity of a canny survivor.—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023 That baggy, shambling gang of tuneless no-hopers swept along on the glassy-eyed tide of post-acid house euphoria?—Jonathan Bernstein, SPIN, 7 June 2023 The franchise's latest spinoff, The Walking Dead: Dead City, which sics its shambling hordes on New York City, premieres this summer.—Christian Holub, EW.com, 11 May 2023 With zombie stories saturating popular culture, the lore in TV and film began to expand beyond the simple trope of shambling brain eaters.—Matt Hongoltz-Hetling, Popular Science, 4 May 2023
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